Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Alternative combinations: Dicotyles serus, Tayassu serus
Synonym: Prosthennops graffhami Schultz and Martin 1975
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of New Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary Formations of the West. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:219-231
Belongs to Prosthennops according to D. B. Wright 1998
See also Colbert 1935, Cope 1877, Hay 1902, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Prothero 2021 and Wright 1989
Sister taxa: Prosthennops condoni, Prosthennops kernensis, Prosthennops ziegleri
Type specimens:
- Prosthennops serus: Its type locality is Sappa Creek, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in Kansas
- Prosthennops graffhami:
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1 collection), Honduras (1), United States (7: Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas)
• Miocene of United States (4: Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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